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Oh, mozzarella. Mozzarella.

2:17

Is he? We have

2:19

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2:21

mozzarella. Can't

2:24

imagine what my neighbors think. We're

2:31

losing him. Hello

2:49

and welcome to Talk Spooky to Me, the

2:52

Ghost Story Guys Mail Show. I'm Brennan

2:54

Storer. And I'm Paul Bestal. And

2:56

this is our chance to hear from you, our listeners.

2:59

Paul, my friend, how you

3:01

doing? I'm doing very well. Surviving

3:03

our recent cold snap with extra

3:05

socks and hot drinks. So we're

3:07

doing OK. Nice. Face forward

3:09

into the wind, feet warm.

3:12

It's what Shackleton would have wanted. Exactly.

3:15

Hopefully things go better for you than they did

3:17

for him. Yes, I'm not

3:20

fancying rowing across icy seas

3:22

to reach safety. Well, I

3:24

guess it went better for him than it did for Scott, so

3:26

could be worse. Yes, yes. For

3:29

my part, I'm also braving sub-zero

3:31

temperatures. It's a little bit warmer now. But

3:34

as I mentioned to you off

3:36

air, my apartment was built sometime

3:38

around the third century BCE using

3:42

a heating system that was created by

3:44

a long dead civilization whose name we

3:46

have forgotten. So it gets cold out

3:48

there. It gets really cold in here.

3:50

But we're working on it. So yeah.

3:53

And I am still here, so I can't

3:55

complain too much. And

3:58

I have, before we get started. on

4:00

listener mail, I have a spooky story for you. Mm-hmm.

4:03

Yeah, I held onto this all throughout

4:05

the live show that we just did

4:07

for $10 patrons, which you can be

4:09

part of if you sign up at

4:11

patreon.com/ghoststoryguys. So I

4:13

caught an Uber home from a night out last

4:17

week. And somehow

4:19

the conversation turned, I always, drives me crazy when

4:21

people say this, what do you do for a

4:23

living? Because you have

4:25

to admit then you're a podcaster. And

4:28

so I said, I'm a

4:30

podcaster. And of course, they ask, what do you podcast about? And

4:32

I told them. And this driver, who

4:34

was probably about my age, he said

4:36

to me, he said, oh, you know, funny. He said, I don't

4:38

believe in that stuff. But he said, something

4:41

happened the other day that was

4:43

really strange. I

4:45

said, okay, well, what was it? And he said, well, I

4:47

picked up a fare over at

4:49

this one bar in

4:53

London. I won't say which, because it's a private

4:55

club. But he said, I picked

4:57

up, she was a waitress. And she

4:59

had just finished closing up for the night. And she was

5:01

in, she was very

5:03

much out of sorts, he said. And

5:06

when he asked her what was wrong, she explained

5:08

that there have always

5:10

been stories about this particular bar being haunted,

5:12

but she never thought much of them until

5:14

that night when she saw

5:16

a little boy run into

5:19

the kitchen from the back area.

5:22

And of course, there are no little boys who

5:25

work in this place or who live in this place. And

5:28

so she got the hell out of there. And

5:30

she was telling this to the driver, and the driver thought,

5:32

oh, sure, okay. But,

5:35

and she said, oh, he's up on, I

5:37

can see him. He's on the roof now. And

5:41

the driver's like, yeah, sure. And he said, from where

5:43

the car was positioned, he couldn't see out her window.

5:46

Again, he didn't think much of it. He just thought she was being

5:48

nuts. So he pulled the U-turn to

5:50

get out of this, because this bar is in kind

5:52

of a unique place as far as where

5:54

the car exit and entry is. So he turned

5:56

around, and he happened to glance up at this

5:58

bar, and he saw. on

6:01

the roof, because the roof has sort of like this low slope, he

6:04

saw something. He didn't see a little boy, but

6:06

he said he saw a column of smoke that

6:09

appeared to be moving with

6:12

intention. And

6:14

it was a fairly breezy night, so, because it

6:16

can get pretty windy here, it's pretty flat, but

6:19

it was not moving with the wind, it

6:21

was moving under its

6:23

own direction, seemingly. And

6:25

he stopped right in his tracks, and the

6:27

waitress, she said, do you see it? Do you

6:29

see him? And he said,

6:32

well, I see something. And she leaned

6:34

over and she said, there he is. He's right there.

6:37

And so it appears that

6:39

she was seeing simultaneously, as he was

6:41

seeing a column of smoke, she was

6:43

seeing a young boy. That

6:45

really freaked this guy out. You know, again,

6:47

he was telling me this story, it wasn't that late, it was

6:49

like 11 o'clock at night by the time I was going back,

6:51

maybe midnight. There's a convenience store

6:54

next to my apartment where you have to park,

6:56

because there's no street parking. He

6:58

sat there for a good five minutes trying to

7:00

find this bar so he could show me, because

7:03

he was so rattled by what he'd

7:05

seen. And I thought, I gotta remember this

7:07

so I can tell Paul. Oh, brilliant. Strange

7:10

things afoot in London, Ontario, which I

7:12

suppose should surprise no one. Well,

7:16

it's always good when somebody who's not really

7:18

a believer has a strange experience that unnerves

7:20

them. Yeah, that's it. Those are my

7:22

favorite stories, because I mean, obviously, if someone believes

7:24

me, that's great. But I just

7:26

think for the really out there stuff,

7:29

and for it's always fascinating to hear

7:31

from someone who otherwise is just not

7:33

interested. Definitely. All

7:35

right. Well, speaking of folks who

7:38

are interested in all things spooky, we have a

7:40

great selection of email. And

7:42

so let's get right to it. Our

7:44

courteous and efficient staff is on call

7:46

24 hours a day to serve all

7:48

your supernatural elimination needs. We're ready to

7:50

believe you. First up is from Tammy,

7:53

who says, I am a

7:55

pathologist assistant and autopsies are part of

7:57

my job. I always find

8:00

it interesting to hear normal people react to

8:02

finding body parts in buckets. It's

8:05

not uncommon for some bits to be kept and not sent

8:07

with the rest of the body. Brains

8:10

need a long time before they are ready to

8:12

be cut and parts are often held. Some

8:15

places have been we bag up all the organs

8:17

after sampling and other than the

8:19

heart and brain it all gets tossed into

8:21

a biohazard bag that is then thrown back

8:23

into the body cavity so it stays together.

8:26

But in some other places all the organs are

8:28

not recurnd, the body actually gets sewn

8:30

up while the organs are being dissected. Fetal

8:34

demise specimens are not uncommon in

8:36

medicine unfortunately. It varies by

8:38

state but under 20 weeks and in

8:40

a lot of states they don't require

8:42

a death certificate and are essentially considered

8:44

surgical specimens such as like

8:47

a gallbladder or other organ from a

8:49

legal standpoint. Well

8:51

that's deeply unsettling. No

8:53

kidding. Well thank you Tammy that's really interesting

8:55

stuff. And of course

8:58

Tammy referring to our conversation with urban

9:00

explorer Ben James on the

9:02

last Talk Spooky episode he has found a number

9:04

of discarded organs and in

9:07

the case, sorry he didn't find the fetus it was

9:10

those French journalists who found it. Yes

9:12

we've had a strange story here

9:14

in Sheffield today hit the news where

9:17

someone's found lots of bags of

9:19

dead birds dumped somewhere and a plastic

9:21

box full of geese feet. Really?

9:25

Where do they find this? In a local

9:27

park. Oh god

9:30

that's not encouraging. No.

9:32

It's very strange, very strange.

9:35

Oh man someone is out there McDonald triading

9:37

hard. So

9:41

another strange Sheffield mystery. One

9:45

of many. Yes very much so.

9:48

Alright next up is from Kate. Kate

9:51

says I'm in the middle of listening to the

9:53

life after death episode and had to write you.

9:56

Everything you touched on from horrifying children's

9:58

animation to existential crises was incredibly

10:01

relatable. I was born

10:03

in 1980, so my childhood was filled with questionable

10:05

movies and books aimed at a younger demographic. I

10:08

remember bawling my way through Old Yeller, Sounder,

10:11

Where the Red Fern Grows, and Brinch to

10:13

Terabethia. Relatives often parked

10:15

myself and my cousins in front of televisions playing

10:17

the Secret of Nim, the Dark Crystal, and the

10:19

Last Unicorn. At each of

10:21

the rare and much anticipated class movie afternoons, at least one

10:23

or two of my classmates had to be escorted out of

10:25

the room because they were

10:27

crying and were dumped in a joining

10:30

classroom until either they calmed down or the movie was

10:32

over. The teachers were

10:34

aware of the potential for upset and planned for it by...

10:37

Providing a spare classroom so the sobbing

10:39

wouldn't disturb the others. Never

10:43

once did any adult question suitability of the video

10:45

or book. Traumatizing young kids were

10:47

taken in stride then, and these school

10:49

movie afternoons of trauma bonding were considered

10:51

awards by the teacher. Even

10:54

with this abundance of choice, one terrifying animated

10:56

movie experience stands out to me. My

10:59

aunt took her two kids, my younger brother, and myself

11:01

to an evening movie as a special treat. Her

11:04

kids were my favorite cousins and after the movie we were

11:06

all going to have a sleepover. Yay! What

11:08

better choice for a kid's evening at the movies than a

11:10

newly released Disney movie? Right? Unless

11:13

that movie just happens to be The Black

11:15

Cauldron and all the kids are under five.

11:21

I was terrified for the entirety and spent most of

11:23

the movie peeking through fingers or just looking at my

11:25

feet. My poor aunt who was

11:27

a single mother was stuck with four terrified, never sleeping

11:30

again kids for the remainder of the night. To

11:32

this day I haven't rewatched the film. Which

11:35

brings me to my second point. Brennan, you

11:37

and I are similar ages and I've had the exact

11:39

same thought processes as I grow older. Although

11:42

I think this is a common occurrence, humans contemplating

11:44

the brevity of existence as they age, I'm

11:46

honestly not surprised the whole generation has some feelings

11:48

with a capital F on death and

11:50

mortality after being exposed to some heavy shit

11:53

at a very young age. As an old millennial,

11:55

I can't afford a house or sleep-out at nightlife.

12:00

Okay, yeah, yeah, I

12:02

I know exactly what you mean. I

12:04

don't know I think I've seen black cauldron, but I don't

12:07

Remember anything about it Have

12:10

you seen that one Paul? Yes, it's it's

12:12

from that Lull period

12:15

when when Disney were not very good

12:17

for quite a while It

12:19

sounds like they're back in that from the reviews. I've read

12:21

of wish I

12:26

don't see what the problem is watching films like that

12:28

for children. It's character building This

12:31

is remember how we talked about all the serial killers

12:33

and the live show Paul. This is how it happens

12:36

We used to do things like that at high school,

12:38

you know Christmas and Easter You know You'd all get

12:40

put into the hall and they'd wheel the TV in

12:42

on the big stand and somebody would bring the video

12:45

recorder out and then one of the kids that had

12:47

to show a teacher how to work it and and

12:51

then we'd watch things like water ship down

12:53

or threads or Black

12:55

cauldron was one of them dark crystal.

12:58

We once watched thriller the video which

13:01

was amazing because it Absolutely shit

13:03

or most of the children watching it

13:05

somebody tried to turn the telly off

13:07

but couldn't reach really And

13:10

I was just like well, it was my mom's video as well

13:15

So I've got loads of time so we weren't

13:17

perturbed at all But there was you know, lots

13:19

of screaming and crying and all kinds of things

13:21

brilliant I mean that was that was

13:23

directed by John Landis. I think yes. Yes it was I

13:26

think it's the full version as well because you could buy

13:28

the the full like film version,

13:30

which is about 11 minutes long. Oh Yeah,

13:34

and then there was the making of afterwards which was

13:36

like half an hour or so. So it's like an

13:38

hour hour-long video

13:40

tape That yeah,

13:42

so we were yeah not bothered but

13:44

obviously a lot of other

13:46

kids were but yeah Yeah, you've never really lived

13:49

until you've been sat in a room full of

13:51

crying children water ship down really This

13:55

was not a thing for us we did not

13:57

do water ship down I can't even think of any movies

13:59

we watched Nothing that made an impact.

14:03

Not like that. Threads, I still can't

14:05

bring myself to watch Threads. Character

14:10

building as a set. It's something.

14:14

I man alive. No,

14:16

I cannot. I cannot do it. I

14:19

mean, nuclear panic stuff freaks me out

14:21

generally. But especially when

14:23

it's, again, something as effective as

14:26

Threads. I had Arrow streaming for ages. I

14:28

just got rid of it because budgeting. But it was

14:31

on there. He just sat there looking at me. You know? Hey,

14:34

Brent, Paul says this is a good movie. Come give

14:36

it a watch. Fuck you. I

14:40

want to sleep tonight. It's

14:42

quite weird looking back, knowing

14:44

that, you know, it was a constant fear. And

14:46

we just kind of got on with it, really, you know? No

14:49

need to be alarmed. This may

14:52

be the last voice you ever hear. If

14:55

someone dies, wrap them in a blanket

14:57

and place them in a room. Hide

14:59

under a door or table. Cover yourselves

15:01

in wet newspaper until the blasts of

15:03

sides. Imagine

15:07

the meetings where they came up with those

15:09

videos. Those guys just doing

15:12

mad bong rips going, They're

15:14

fucked anyways. What are we going to tell them to

15:16

do? Oh, go under the desk. That's hilarious. They're just

15:18

going to climb under the desk. We could say whatever

15:20

the fuck we want, they're going to die after it,

15:22

so. Kiss each

15:24

other on the lips. Hearing

15:27

my voice means you have four minutes left.

15:30

Is that in threads? No, that's

15:32

what we used to be taught. Fuck me. Oh

15:36

my God, that's a nightmare. That is

15:38

a nightmare. Well, we were,

15:40

I don't know, 10 or 11, we

15:43

were all well aware that if the Russians launched

15:45

a strike, we would

15:47

be decimated extremely quickly.

15:50

I am not sad that I grew up in the

15:52

latter part of the 80s and was only really a

15:54

conscious functioning human being into the 90s. here

18:00

it was 8384 was the

18:02

the year of being terrified

18:04

of nuclear war. God

18:06

almighty. I mean it makes a certain amount of sense because

18:08

I was born in 83 and so

18:11

I just feel like a bunch of psychic fear was downloaded

18:13

into my my brain just as

18:15

soon as I exited you know like oh

18:17

and now I'm afraid of everything cool well

18:19

this is gonna be a great life. I'm

18:24

kind of curious do you have a movie or

18:27

have you had like a movie as an adult

18:29

that you've watched that has made you cry an

18:32

embarrassing amount? If you

18:34

say no I'm gonna come there and hit you. I

18:38

mean I'm a I'm a bit of a softy if

18:40

something gives me the feels that tends to get to

18:42

me. I think Princess

18:45

Bride makes me weep. Oh

18:47

interesting. Philadelphia. Oh

18:50

okay. What else makes me sad? No I

18:53

don't know

18:55

I'm probably desensitized.

18:58

I got very upset when the dog died in John

19:00

Wayne. That's fair. That's that is an upsetting part of

19:02

the movie. I am I am

19:04

especially to get older. I am

19:06

a lot more inclined to have an emotional response

19:09

to stuff like I went to go see Violent

19:12

Knight at the Highland

19:14

cinema here in London a couple nights ago and I've

19:16

seen it before I saw it in cinema this when

19:18

it came out last year and I

19:20

own it at home but I don't know it's

19:22

on the big screen ten bucks why

19:24

not but when Santa's talking

19:26

to the little girl and

19:29

you know she is telling him like you

19:32

give me hope that makes I cried I'm

19:34

sitting in the theater in the dark I'm

19:36

trying to not to make any noise you

19:38

know so I can just pretend like I'm

19:41

having a joyful reaction at all the slaughter

19:43

happening on screen you know I'm just

19:45

crying cuz he's killing those terrorists that's

19:47

great you know. Yeah

19:51

as you as you grow older you'll find that

19:53

that happens more. Oh good good.

19:56

That happens a lot there are

19:58

sometimes films that I'm watching and so on. so I just

20:00

go... and then

20:03

I'll realize my face is wet. But

20:06

yeah, those two were the ones that always

20:08

get me. Princess Praxis

20:10

is just lovely and stubbly. So

20:16

are you more likely to cry at a happy

20:18

or a sad? Hmm, I don't know. I don't

20:21

know actually. I

20:23

have discovered that I am actually more inclined to

20:25

cry at joyful moments. I

20:27

still cry at sad shit. Like the movie Pete's

20:29

Dragon, the remake, directed by

20:31

David Lowry, it incapacitated me.

20:33

Both Nick and I. We

20:35

were destroyed. A friend came and brought

20:38

us some homemade cookies. We

20:41

watched it around Christmas a couple years ago and we

20:43

were just sobbing. Look, she thought we'd

20:45

had a fight or something. Because I came to

20:47

the door and my face is red. And Nick's

20:49

face is red. Are you

20:51

guys okay? I was watching the Pete's

20:53

Dragon remake. Oh Christ. Is

20:56

that a metaphor? No, no. I

21:02

can't think of the last thing that made me. I mean

21:04

Christmas always gets me. So there'll be

21:07

something that gets me. I'll have to

21:09

take notes over the next four weeks and I'll

21:11

come up with a list and share that with

21:13

you for the new year. A

21:15

weeping bullet journal. The

21:22

thing that gets me, and we'll move on to the next email here in

21:24

a sec, but the thing that really gets me is hope.

21:27

Yes. I've realized that if

21:29

I'm watching something and someone

21:32

has their faith

21:34

restored or their hope validated, I just

21:38

go to pieces. That

21:40

is kind of my thing. That's why I think Violent

21:42

Night always gets me. Because a little girl is kind

21:45

of having her sense of wonder validated

21:47

and given back to her. And I think

21:49

that's a really beautiful book.

21:52

The thing that gets me, and we'll move on to the next email

21:54

in a sec. But the thing that really gets me is

21:56

hope. Yes. I've realized that if

21:58

I'm watching something and And someone

22:01

has their faith restored or

22:03

their hope validated. I

22:07

just, I go to pieces. You

22:10

know, that is kind of my thing. That's why I

22:12

think Violent Knight always gets me, because a little girl

22:14

is kind of having her sense of wonder validated

22:17

and given back to her. And I think

22:19

that's a really beautiful thing. Like

22:22

Captain America when he gets up

22:24

in Endgame. Hell yes. That's

22:26

hope, right there. God damn right.

22:29

That gets me the build. It tightens

22:31

his shield, the broken shield. Yeah

22:34

man. Well man against the world. Get

22:37

up. Yeah. Julie

22:40

always reminds me of when we went to see that in

22:42

the similar. Just going get up Cap, get up. And

22:46

I go and he gets up and I go, yes, come

22:48

on. And

22:51

I'm very, very invested in Captain America.

22:53

That's fair. I, Christ, I might watch

22:56

Endgame once we're done this. I

22:59

never get sick of that movie. Yeah. Both

23:01

of them back to back. I'm

23:03

still not. Infinity War not as much for me,

23:05

but I respect the game. I respect the

23:08

entire saga. Yes.

23:10

Yes. Anyway,

23:13

let's move on. Deep voice. Manly.

23:16

Yes. Next up is

23:18

David. And

23:21

David says, hi, do you have any

23:23

stories from Alaska? No. Thank

23:25

you. Goodbye. We

23:29

had that one story from Kadena

23:31

Air Force Base in the

23:33

Haunting in the Military 2 episode. And I think, no, not Kadena.

23:37

Shit. Ileson. I think Ileson's

23:39

in Alaska. Yeah. Alaska's like the bear you

23:41

don't want to poke, really. You

23:44

know? I mean, I know we were

23:46

talking about it on the livestream, talking about reading Luke Phillips'

23:50

new book, Rogue. And

23:52

one of the characters in that talks

23:55

about the incident up

23:57

at Port Chatham or Port

23:59

Lock. and all the

24:01

stories about that, which is obviously in Alaska.

24:04

And there are some very disturbing stories

24:08

that cover all realms of

24:10

the paranormal in Alaska. So I

24:13

think the aspect of

24:15

that is that it's not

24:18

the most populated of states, and they're

24:20

a very hardy breed, I mean you've

24:22

got to be, essentially living in the

24:24

Arctic Circle. So this

24:28

is the kind of place where

24:30

polar bears are picked up and

24:32

airlifted to polar bear prison, which

24:36

was a very interesting documentary that I never knew

24:38

existed, that was a prison for polar bears. But

24:41

there you have it. This is news to me, what's this called?

24:44

I'm kind of thinking it's near Anchorage, but

24:47

there's a place where they've got a dump, and

24:51

it's so far away that they've basically just got an open

24:53

air dump and they burn stuff in it, because they can't

24:55

get it anywhere else. And unfortunately,

24:57

obviously there's a lot of food

25:00

waste there, so it's bringing the polar bears in. And

25:03

so then the polar bears go, oh, there's

25:05

lots of food around here, I wonder if there's anything a

25:07

bit warmer to eat. And so

25:09

therefore they then have to tranquilize the

25:11

polar bears, and then they're airlifted, I

25:13

don't know, 100 miles away to this

25:15

secure compound where they're kept for a

25:17

few days, and then they're released back

25:19

into the wild. Bear

25:22

prison. I am fascinated by this.

25:24

So there's one in Churchill, Manitoba.

25:28

It is... No, it might be that one. It

25:30

might be Churchill, then. I

25:32

know that's going to Churchill to see the bears is something

25:34

Nick has always wanted to do, and

25:37

it's sort of on our long-term to-do

25:39

list. Yeah, it's

25:41

Churchill. I thought it was an Alaska-Britched Churchill,

25:43

yeah. But that's it, yeah. They go there, and

25:45

then they're put in there for a bit, and

25:48

the isolation kind of messes them up for

25:51

some reason, and then they're just taken somewhere

25:53

else and dropped. I mean, all the data

25:55

shows that isolation messes up people who go

25:57

to solitary confinement, too, so I think it's

25:59

just the... the isolation

26:01

of both regardless of who you are. Which

26:03

is quite weird because you wouldn't consider polar

26:05

bears to be social creatures unless they're mating.

26:09

Stick me in a box so I can't mate. I won't be very

26:11

happy either, Paul. Well, that's true. That's true.

26:13

So, who knows? Well,

26:16

the last thing, speaking of David's,

26:20

different David, but one of our listeners,

26:23

David, he sent me a ticket to

26:25

see Spamalot at the Stratford Festival

26:27

in Stratford, Ontario. It's got a longer name

26:29

than Stratford, something, something. Maybe the Shakespeare Festival,

26:31

I don't fucking know. It's not Shakespeare. Anyways,

26:33

whatever. It's a festival of some kind. They

26:36

put on a production of musical Spamalot. David sent me

26:38

a ticket. It was wonderful. It's

26:41

unfortunately ended, but if they do it again next year, make

26:44

sure you check it out. It is... Spamalot's always

26:46

a great time anyways. And

26:49

yeah, the folks in Stratford

26:51

did a wonderful job. Yes.

26:53

We'll have to see what we can

26:56

do in regards to Alaska, because it's

26:58

certainly a supernatural state.

27:01

There is no doubt. I mean, we've

27:03

got that episode we're planning with our special

27:06

guest for 177. Maybe we'll see if I

27:08

can put something together for that. Yeah.

27:11

I saw that documentary about those vampires

27:13

in Alaska. Oh yeah, that

27:15

was 30 days a night. Yeah,

27:17

yeah. Good documentary, that. Very,

27:20

very hard-hitting cinema verite

27:22

stuff. Yes, yeah, very much

27:24

so. If you ignore the plot holes, it's

27:26

quite compelling. Friends go let friends lift

27:28

Annie Houston into their small towns. How

27:32

can one man steal every single person's

27:34

mobile phone? Got

27:37

very light fingers. Or maybe a polar bear at

27:39

the mall. That's why they have the

27:42

prison. After the Great

27:44

Barrow Massacre, they put the prison...

27:47

It's all... I just can't help.

27:49

A bear imprisoned

27:51

in the Superman thing, like General Zod.

27:55

So he's just like making bear

27:58

noises as he's flying out into the dark. miss

28:00

of space anyway. Next

28:05

up, Caitlin says, the

28:07

best part of starting the workday is

28:10

the disembodied hello from

28:12

the downstairs hallway. Good luck

28:14

with that Caitlin, we'll miss you. Say

28:17

hello back, see what happens. There you go.

28:20

Strangers in the night start playing. Oh

28:22

you see if it was me if I heard

28:24

that I'd go, is it me you're looking for?

28:27

I can see it in your eyes. I

28:30

can see it in your smile. I

28:32

don't know the rest of the world. You're

28:35

all I ever wanted. And

28:39

this video is deeply uncomfortable viewing in 2023. Cause

28:43

the teachers are harassing the people.

28:46

Ohhhh. How

28:51

has she made a model of his face? It

28:54

just gets worse. Have

28:56

you never seen the video? No. Watch

28:59

it and if you don't call the police afterwards you've done well.

29:03

If I don't call the police afterwards, someone should call the police on me.

29:07

I get it. Yeah.

29:11

Time's not been kind to that video. Time

29:13

has not been kind to a lot of music videos. Hot

29:17

for teacher, not great. Mary

29:26

writes, since you and poor animal

29:28

lovers, I have an interesting

29:30

and amusing story that may or may

29:32

not convince you that reincarnation exists. Back

29:35

in 2005 I was blessed

29:38

to adopt a homeless kiki in the spring that

29:40

I named Kaz. He was

29:42

the best cat, never getting into trouble, even

29:45

took care and protected his little adopted sister. At

29:48

the end of summer he started, shall we

29:50

say, romancing the comforter on

29:53

my bed. One night,

29:55

after having a few too many drinks, I came

29:57

home and just wanted to sleep. But here

29:59

came a few. came to us looking to start his

30:01

new evening ritual. Being tired

30:04

and not wanting to be bothered, I

30:06

tossed him a fuzzy pig slipper that I had

30:08

my closet as a joke. And

30:10

without missing a beat, he climbed on

30:12

the little pig and a new tradition

30:14

was started. As the years

30:16

went on, he went through both pig

30:18

slippers, a few teddy bears, and monkey!

30:24

Oh God! Sadly,

30:31

I lost Taz back in 2013. Approximately

30:34

one year later, a handsome kitty started showing

30:36

up on our doorstep. By the end of

30:38

summer, we had decided we loved this goofy

30:40

boy and we adopted him into our loving

30:42

home. His name is Pumpkin, and

30:44

he has been a big goofy addition to this

30:46

house. We have joked at times that

30:49

he is the reincarnation of Taz because he

30:51

was born around the time Taz passed, and also

30:53

because he has the prettiest blue eyes I

30:55

have ever seen in an adult cat. Pumpkin

30:58

has been with us 10 years now, and this

31:00

fall, completely out of the blue,

31:02

he started to romance the blankets on

31:04

the bed. On

31:06

a whim, I went to the store and bought

31:09

him a teddy bear. It took a few nights,

31:11

but the romance is becoming a regular part of

31:13

his nightly routine. So

31:15

I leave it to you guys, is

31:17

reincarnation possible? I have to

31:19

say, I'm a believer. And

31:22

I sent a lovely picture

31:25

of Pumpkin, and he's beautiful. He

31:28

really is. So I've

31:30

got two parts to this. My

31:33

mum's had a few rescue dogs over the years,

31:36

and she had

31:39

a Yorkshire Terrier called Pippa. And

31:44

at the same time, she had a

31:46

labrador. So she had this enormous snake,

31:49

like a fluffy snake. It was about six foot

31:51

long. And Pippa was this

31:53

Yorkshire Terrier, so she wasn't very big. And

31:55

she essentially would get to 11 o'clock at

31:58

night, and you could be sat there watching. jelly

32:00

having a drink or something and she would

32:02

just jump on this snake and that was

32:04

it, she'd be humping it all

32:06

around the front room, didn't matter what was going on,

32:09

it was snake

32:11

pumping time. And that's

32:14

what it was. But

32:17

in a slightly less sexy kind of

32:20

comparison to what we're saying

32:22

about pumpkin being the reincarnation

32:24

of Taz, when I

32:26

had my previous dog Rolf and

32:29

my mum had her beautiful big Labrador

32:31

Ross who was essentially a

32:34

dog in the size of a bear

32:37

but thought he was a puppy. He

32:39

had this trick that whenever he came round he

32:41

would just sit down and he put his front

32:44

legs on you and his paws and

32:46

he'd love his arms rubbing, he'd really like his arms

32:48

to be rubbed so he used to just do that

32:50

for you. And

32:53

he sadly passed quite young for adult, 9

32:55

or 10 I think he was and

32:58

within a month to

33:02

two months afterwards

33:04

Rolf who'd never ever shown

33:06

any indication that

33:08

he wanted to do this or anything suddenly

33:11

decided that he'd like to put

33:14

his front legs on

33:16

you and want his arms rubbing in

33:18

exactly the same way Britt only started

33:20

after Ross had died. Interesting.

33:22

He never used to do it when he was there

33:24

and he could see what Ross was doing. He never

33:28

wanted to copy him, he never tried to

33:30

do it, he never showed any inclination for

33:32

it until he'd passed and then he

33:34

started doing it all the way until he passed

33:37

away himself. Oh

33:39

man. So make of that what you

33:41

will. Yeah. So

33:44

Rolf was still, he was like part of that

33:46

householder, he was your mum's dog? No,

33:48

Rolf was mine, Ross was, Ross

33:51

the labrador was my mum's dog and

33:53

they loved each other very much, they were good

33:56

playmates but yeah he never did it until Ross

33:58

passed away and then after Ross passed away. away

34:00

within a couple of months, that's what he liked to do.

34:02

So why

34:05

did he start doing that? That is

34:07

a great question. That's

34:09

cute either way. But yes,

34:12

Pumpkin looks like a beautiful cat

34:15

and yes, long

34:17

may he continue to bring lots of love and

34:19

mirth to your home. Next

34:28

up is from Tessa on YouTube. Tessa

34:30

says, you guys have some of the best accounts

34:33

slash experiences slash incidents I've ever heard and you

34:35

both have the best voices. You guys are such

34:37

wonderful narrators. You guys should have way more views

34:39

on here. Well, thank you, Tessa. We agree with

34:41

that last point at the very least. It's

34:45

funny actually, YouTube has always been kind of a sort

34:48

of an afterthought for us. You know, I

34:50

mean, thankful, like with Joseph coming on at

34:53

the last couple of years and now

34:55

thanks with Adam who is done all our video

34:58

editing. We have a lot more YouTube content

35:00

but for years it was just

35:02

a place I would, when I remembered, I

35:04

would like dump the audio only episode with

35:06

a flat background. And you

35:10

know, people, as I've mentioned, sometimes people

35:12

ask what I do for a living. I'll say,

35:14

I'm a professional podcaster and

35:16

they'll look us up on YouTube and I have to

35:19

say, no, no, no, that's not where our audience is.

35:24

Your most popular video has like a hundred

35:26

views. Yeah, no, I know, I know. We're

35:29

not really YouTube people. This is, don't

35:31

judge me by the YouTube

35:34

numbers. I swear. It's cold

35:36

out, baby. That's never happened to

35:39

me before. If only you were

35:44

like Taz. If only.

35:47

All right, one

35:49

more from Penguin1780 on YouTube talking

35:51

about our episode, our talk spooky

35:53

episode, Fist Fighting Kangaroos. Penguin

35:56

says, Dr. Mario on the Wii is my

35:58

favorite game ever. I had to stop

36:01

playing other people because it was causing problems in our

36:03

friend group back when the Wii was new. Apparently

36:05

there's some study that shows that another game

36:07

like Tetris helps people with complex PTSD. I

36:10

find it soothing. So, first off,

36:12

Penguin, I just gotta say I find it endlessly

36:15

hilarious the notion that your friend group is being

36:17

riven apart because you're crushing these

36:19

people in Dr. Mario and just going, IN

36:21

YOUR FACE! Well, we

36:23

had a football tournament in

36:25

1998, right? This

36:28

is how long ago? This is 25 years ago,

36:30

right? And it's still, whenever I sit

36:32

down and I think about it, it still makes me

36:34

laugh because there were like, I think there were six

36:36

of us playing. So we were up till like four

36:38

in the morning and I was

36:40

the big favourite and I lost to

36:43

one of my friends. And

36:45

essentially, I was

36:48

top of the group and there

36:50

was one game left which was with our

36:52

friend who didn't play games

36:54

at all unless he

36:56

was with us. Whereas we all had a

36:58

PlayStation and played it every day, whatever. And

37:00

so there was no way on God's Earth

37:03

that I was not gonna, that I was

37:05

gonna win the league because I'll

37:07

not name names. This person

37:09

was easily gonna beat the crap

37:11

part-time player. No problem. And

37:15

he lost. And

37:18

he got, and he didn't lose. He got

37:20

hammered. He like lost 4-1 or something. And

37:24

he just went, right, I'm going

37:26

to fucking bet. John

37:30

John, for now we're just sat there going,

37:32

yes! I've

37:35

won the title by not doing anything.

37:37

It was amazing. 25

37:40

years off, still talk about it to this day. What

37:42

a night. Victory is

37:45

victory. It is. I'll take it all. I'll take

37:47

it all. This

37:51

next one is from Colleen. Colleen says, connection.

38:01

Hey folks, it's me. I am cutting this

38:03

in after the fact because in

38:05

my original response, I said that

38:07

I thought this was probably an

38:10

internet creation because I couldn't find

38:13

any real information on it. Now, of course,

38:15

our patrons get the show ahead of the

38:17

public feed. They usually get the show on Saturday. The

38:20

show comes out on Tuesday and our

38:22

patron, Eileen, commented on the post

38:24

and then sent in this email. So I thought instead

38:26

of my original response, which was, hey, wrong,

38:29

I would share her information, which is right. So

38:32

this is from Eileen. Eileen says,

38:34

Danish person to the rescue. It's

38:36

a real folklore creature, apparently. Not one

38:38

I knew of, granted, but a very

38:40

cursory search yielded results. Here's a very

38:43

short text in English. She includes

38:45

a link, which I'll put in the show notes. And

38:47

she says, the rest I've found is in Danish. This

38:50

text here is very detailed. Again, there's a link.

38:52

I will include that in the show notes. Eileen

38:55

goes on to say, basically the purpose

38:57

it served in the 18th and 19th centuries

38:59

was, quote, wells are dangerous for prosaic reasons.

39:01

Let's use a monster to make it even

39:03

scarier for kids. Whereas

39:05

earlier, it seems it maybe was a creature

39:07

people believe could affect people's actions or health, i.e.

39:10

an explanation of bad health in humans and livestock

39:13

before we had the modern understanding of disease and

39:15

microbes. It has also been

39:17

called Krogmanden, the man with the hook, Brøntrolden,

39:20

you tell me if I'm getting that

39:22

wrong, Eileen, the well troll, Brøntossen,

39:25

the idiot in the well, or simply

39:27

Manden i Brønden, the man in the

39:30

well. It was also known

39:32

as Kildemand, the man of the stream, because the

39:34

word Kilda was used for wells in some part

39:36

of Denmark in olden times. Eileen

39:38

continues, the reason I hadn't heard of it is

39:40

that it's not really in use in modern times,

39:43

presumably because we don't really use wells anymore.

39:46

So thank you, Eileen, for providing that insight. And

39:48

if you want to be part of the Cool Kids Club who gets to hear

39:50

the show ahead of everyone else, sign up

39:52

at patreon.com/Ghost Story Guys, or of

39:55

course, GST Premium via Apple Podcasts.

39:58

Oh, one last thing. Before we go back to

40:00

the regular recording with Paul, which we recorded

40:02

of course on Thursday and I'm recording this Monday, I

40:05

have a favor to ask. Like

40:08

I said, Paul's not here. He wouldn't ask. I'm going

40:10

to ask. Mysteries and

40:12

Monsters was nominated for a GPN

40:14

Paramete Award. It

40:16

was nominated for Top Podcast Show

40:19

and I would very much appreciate

40:22

it if you could follow the

40:24

link in the show notes. It will be

40:26

right at the top. Right at the top.

40:29

Follow through and vote for

40:31

Mysteries and Monsters under Top

40:34

Podcast Show. That

40:36

would mean a lot. I know it would mean a lot to

40:38

Paul again. He would never ask. I'm

40:40

going to ask. In fact, I'm going to say, let's

40:43

crush the competition. There's nothing wrong with

40:45

them. They all seem like great people, but they're not Paul. So

40:47

let's fucking crush those people

40:49

with our love for

40:51

Mysteries and Monsters. All

40:53

right. Again, that's GPN Top Podcast Show. There'll be

40:55

a link right at the top of the show

40:57

notes. Follow

41:00

through. You vote using your Google account. And if

41:02

you have more than one Google account, I'm

41:06

not saying it, but you know what I'm not

41:08

saying. Right? Right?

41:11

Yeah. You're cool. You

41:13

got it. All right. Enough

41:15

of my nonsense. Thanks again to Aline. And

41:17

now back to your regularly scheduled programming already

41:20

in progress. If

41:22

I'm wrong and someone has examples, please

41:24

send them in. [email protected]. Do

41:27

you live in Copenhagen? I

41:29

live in Copenhagen. Can we stay with you? It's

41:33

cheaper than drinking in Sweden. Oh

41:35

God, I can't imagine. And Norway. Well,

41:38

again, considering how expensive it

41:40

was to drink in Iceland, I can't imagine

41:42

those places are any cheaper. Yeah, well,

41:45

a lot of Norwegians go to Sweden

41:47

and Denmark to drink because it's cheaper. Oh,

41:50

I see. Wow. So even as

41:52

expensive as Sweden is, it's still cheaper than Norway. Oh,

41:55

yeah, yeah, yeah. Woof.

41:57

Yes. You've got to know where to drink. in

42:00

Norway. I don't go

42:03

anywhere tourists so. I

42:10

mean that's true I think that's true

42:12

everywhere even here I you know

42:14

I started going for beers at this place and it was kind

42:17

of like a chain type spot just because it was nearish to

42:19

me and then I ended up walking

42:21

into this local bar in the

42:23

neighborhood kind of about 10 minutes away and

42:25

the food is better it's cheaper and

42:28

it's she said oh yeah if you actually go somewhere

42:30

that's kind of off the main road you're gonna get

42:32

fed a hell of a lot better than you would

42:34

at those other places and yeah. If

42:37

anybody tries to charge more than four pay off

42:40

fifty for a pint is London prices. You

42:45

know what should

42:47

a pint what is generally a pint cost there? It

42:50

widely varies depends what you drink and why

42:52

you drink mine usually

42:55

cost between three and three pounds

42:57

and three pounds eighty. Okay

43:00

that's reasonable I think when we were in rugby

43:02

the night before you got there I went to the pub and I

43:04

think I paid I think I paid

43:06

about three eighty for a pint of ale. Yes

43:09

that seems reasonable. Whereas

43:12

down in in Weston before

43:14

I sorry in Cleveland before I came up in the

43:16

southwest that was like four pounds for a pint of

43:19

you know nothing special. It

43:22

still amuses me when southern has come up

43:24

like one of my mates he moved up and he was

43:26

still chuckling about the fact he'd buy two pints to get

43:28

change from a tenner. Yeah

43:30

and you guys don't have to tip either so

43:32

it actually is the price. Yeah

43:35

exactly. Yes restaurants if you only

43:37

tip if you eat. If you eat.

43:40

Oh okay. I've run into in the

43:42

States as well so I would imagine it's it's the

43:44

similar kind of situation isn't it isn't

43:46

it is it because of minimum wage or is it

43:48

just the standard. Both especially

43:51

down in the States like I don't think there is

43:53

a minimum wage for servers in a lot of states

43:56

so you know you're making

43:58

your hourly wages nothing. And then you're

44:01

living off your tips which is grotesque

44:04

but yeah. Yeah, you

44:06

don't tip them, you buy them a drink. So

44:08

if you buy some drinks, you say, do you want one? Oh,

44:12

okay. And you buy them a drink. That's

44:14

less common here. I've done that but

44:17

yeah, less common here. Again,

44:20

I feel like the money thing is a little more accepted. I

44:22

feel like I could be wrong but I feel like the drink

44:24

thing is a little bit more like, hey, can

44:26

I buy you? Even if it's a bartender, I feel like

44:28

it's a little bit like that. Like

44:31

when I went out for drinks once with some

44:34

guys from my improv class in Montreal and

44:36

we got pasted, just

44:39

pasted. And I got this gremlin

44:41

on my shoulder, man. I'll just

44:44

have a beer. I can absolutely have a beer. I can

44:46

even have two or three beers and like, that's fine. Let's

44:48

go like... But if I get the

44:51

shots demon on

44:53

my shoulder, if the shots monkey

44:55

gets his claws in, it's game over

44:57

for everyone. And shots

44:59

demon got me good that night because I

45:01

just kept ordering shots of whiskey

45:03

for everyone. I just kept saying to the

45:05

bartender, hey, you want one? You want one?

45:09

And he's like, oh no, man. I tied one on last

45:11

night. But I'd still ask every time, you want one? No?

45:15

And finally, I don't know, maybe I look so good

45:17

with my one eyedroop and he's like, oh well, okay.

45:20

And then he's still... Yeah, exactly. He started taking

45:22

shots with us too. I

45:24

can't say anything. But finally, I've had one glass

45:26

of wine in two months. Really?

45:28

That's why you've been depressed. You're not drinking

45:30

at home. Just

45:33

not. I don't know. I had a night out for

45:35

a while and I don't drink in the house. That's

45:38

fair enough. I bought a bottle of

45:40

scotch when I moved here but I just haven't enjoyed it. I'm

45:42

kind of the same way. I don't drink at home. I

45:45

like going out and having a beer but if I'm going

45:47

all by myself, having more than two seems a

45:50

little bit tragic. And actually that happened to me. Of

45:54

course, as you and I have discussed, I've been

45:56

having all these technical problems with my laptop and

45:59

one night... I usually basically

46:01

like I'll finish the episode on Saturday and then after

46:03

work I go to the bar and have a beer

46:05

or two by myself and I

46:08

went out a Couple Saturdays ago

46:10

and I was really struggling with this problem I

46:12

was just racking my brain reading through forum posts

46:14

trying to figure out how to fix it and So

46:18

the waitress ended up bringing me a third beer and

46:20

I got about halfway through it and all of a sudden I thought well Guess

46:23

I'm not driving home Went

46:26

to go stand up to use the bathroom. Oh, right. Two

46:28

is usually my limit Okay Uber

46:34

Yeah, that's a good good reason why it

46:36

takes four minutes to walk to the pub eleven

46:39

minutes to walk back See

46:42

I can't because I live in fucking crime

46:44

alley I can walk out I can't walk

46:46

back I can but it's a bit of a a

46:49

bit of a crapshoot at night Yes,

46:53

well I'll I'll be Inviting

46:56

in officially now for the whole

46:59

of December because it's Christmas Excellent

47:02

get on the Sherry. I Mean,

47:04

I gotta get back over there so we can so we can

47:06

hit the town Yeah,

47:14

it's a lot cheaper and better pubs around here as well Sheffield

47:16

won't know what hit it I Sorry,

47:22

that was that was my hubris talking I know I

47:24

can't possibly make a dent in the vortex

47:26

of the Sheffield You'll be

47:28

surprised you'll be surprised. It's

47:30

very very friendly especially around where I live. It's

47:33

always very people are always very chatty Oh

47:35

good, very cool Next

47:38

up is Teresa. I think this one's you

47:40

it is me Teresa

47:42

says hi guys. I grew up in

47:45

the deep woods of Northwestern, Wisconsin My

47:48

dad still owns just under a hundred acres

47:50

there Wow, my whole family are

47:52

hunters and there are multiple hunting

47:54

seasons per year depending on what you're looking to

47:56

nab Dear bear turkeys

47:58

ducks etc. Indiana

48:01

may have different hunting seasons, but

48:03

probably not that far off from Wisconsin. Now

48:07

Grandpa may have been having a broke

48:09

back situation, and that's his business, and

48:11

I think that happens more often than

48:14

you know. But as many

48:16

hunters can attest to, sometimes

48:18

you can't get out to your hunting location

48:20

until after lunch, and sometimes you go out

48:22

at sunrise, come home for lunch, and go

48:25

back out till sunset. Since

48:27

we live so far out into the woods, our

48:29

deer stands were on our own property about half

48:31

a mile back from our house, in the woods,

48:33

on our acreage. It's an easy walk

48:36

to and from, with enough time to get

48:38

a few hours hunting time before dark. I

48:41

hope this helps make sense of Grandpa's timing.

48:44

Yes, thank you, Theresa, very much.

48:47

That does make more sense. Again, I'm not a

48:49

hunter, obviously. The

48:51

only guns I've shot you could not hunt with, at

48:55

least not animals. Perhaps the most

48:57

dangerous animal of all. Yeah, I wonder what time

48:59

Bigfoot season is in Wisconsin then. In

49:03

Wisconsin, Bigfoot hunts you. Yes,

49:05

I'm reading a book about

49:08

the true stories of these, yes. As

49:10

I recall, yes. I'm setting your

49:12

neck in the woods, actually. Ontario?

49:16

Washington State, British Columbia. That's not my problem

49:18

right now. From

49:21

December 20th to January 8th is my problem, I'll be

49:23

back for Christmas. Just

49:25

stay out in the Nahoonie Valley, you'll be alright. I

49:28

don't think there's any danger of me entering anyone's

49:30

Nahoonie Valley anytime soon. It's

49:36

Christmas, Theo, it's the time of

49:38

miracles. Okay,

49:41

anyway. Alright

49:48

folks, that's going to do it for this

49:51

episode of Talk Spooky to Me. Thanks,

49:53

as always, to everyone who sent in

49:55

their messages. And if you want to send us something,

49:57

possibly have it read out on this show, shoot it

49:59

to me. to [email protected].

50:02

That's [email protected].

50:05

Sometimes also we will pull from Instagram or

50:07

Reddit or um what's

50:09

the other one Paul, YouTube, that's it. No,

50:12

I was just agreeing that you remembered YouTube. Oh

50:14

yes, yeah finally. Ha ha ha ha

50:16

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

50:18

ha ha But the the MySpace But

50:21

yeah my yeah my Friendster Bebo

50:23

Beosites Yeah that too Ha

50:25

ha ha AOL Ha

50:27

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Netscape AIM

50:31

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha internet explorer I

50:34

CQ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

50:36

ha ha ha is that the one where it made that funny tick tick tick

50:39

tick noise Yeah that's the one Yeah

50:41

yeah I remember that just Napster

50:43

days Oh yes LimeWire,

50:45

the virus superhighway Ha ha ha ha ha

50:47

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

50:49

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

50:52

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

50:54

oh man Yeah virus wire Yeah exactly so

50:57

yeah so you can get the best

50:59

way is email [email protected] Paul

51:02

where can everyone find you online You

51:04

can find me under mysteries and

51:06

monsters across all social media platforms

51:08

and podcast sats I

51:11

am largely the truth

51:13

on Twitter, Instagram, Blue

51:15

Sky, Threads and Letterboxd I

51:17

don't really use Twitter that much but my account actually

51:19

I don't use it at all but it's still there

51:22

Letterboxd if you want to see me get nerdy

51:24

about movies and of course you can

51:27

listen to my show Weird Together we are

51:29

going on break for the month of

51:31

December but our next episode will be out

51:33

on the day after this is released and

51:35

that will be about the film Black Friday which is

51:37

a hoot I

51:40

love Black Friday Speaking of upcoming

51:42

shows Paul on the

51:44

day this releases our appearance

51:46

on the TV trivia pod will be out

51:50

Yes it's all happening Yeah

51:52

it's a busy month December

51:54

is turning out to be October too Yes

51:57

and I'm not sure when I'll be on Jim

52:00

Harrell's Campfire, but that will be upcoming shortly as

52:02

well, I would imagine. Oh,

52:04

of course. And I actually just got a note,

52:07

and I'm sorry, I don't remember who said it,

52:09

but one of our listeners just recorded

52:11

a spot on Campfire and gave us a shout-out.

52:13

So thank you very much for that. Fabulous.

52:17

All right. Well, as always, we like to end

52:20

Talk Spooky With Me with a song. We like to

52:22

feature artists in this space. And if you are

52:24

an independent musical artist and you would like to have

52:27

your song featured here, shoot us a

52:29

message. Ghoststoryguys, it's email.com. You

52:31

can also DM us on Instagram as the

52:33

Ghost Story Guys, but the account is weirdly

52:36

popular, so we don't always see all the DMs, so

52:38

email is the best way to do it. But

52:42

this time around, we don't have an outside artist. This

52:45

time around, we have someone who is on Night Harvest Recordings.

52:48

And Night Harvest Recordings is the

52:50

Ghost Story Guys' host label. This

52:52

time around, we're going to feature a new track

52:55

from The Revenants, The Revenants are kind of one

52:57

of the whole reasons the label exists

52:59

in the first place. The Revenants, of

53:01

course, a project of Boston-based musician Elliot

53:03

Wilder. The song is

53:05

Pop Life, and that's from The Revenants' latest

53:07

album, also called Pop Life. Pop Life

53:10

just dropped on streaming platforms everywhere. And

53:12

if you want to buy a digital copy

53:15

of it that comes with very cool, lovely

53:18

designed liner notes, you can

53:20

buy them direct from Elliot at

53:22

therevenants1.bandcamp.com. Again,

53:24

that's therevenants1.bandcamp.com. Thanks

53:30

again for joining us, and until next

53:32

time, we will leave you with The Revenants

53:35

and Pop Life. I

55:02

was just gonna think about

55:04

how to lie I

55:08

was just gonna think about how to

55:10

lie For

55:16

me, I can tell you what I

55:18

did Father,

55:21

I know that we have

55:24

all been dating

55:30

babies All

55:53

the way back to

55:55

our old friends This

56:01

is my friend, though, Hengam. Can

56:06

you see what part we made up? I'm

56:09

seeing you. Can

56:13

the promise of being someone so you

56:15

can let it be? Oh,

56:19

that's what happens when you say you're

56:21

the only one. The

56:24

sheets on my head now storm

56:31

That I will have it

56:34

all alone All

56:38

night All

56:42

night All

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night All night All

56:57

night All

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night All

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night All

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night All

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night